Detached signature as a pass-through filter?

[John Clizbe]

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Michael Young wrote:
> I'd like to use GnuPG to sign an intermediate result, something like:
>
>     command ... | gpg --detach-sign -o signature_file | other_command ...
>
> This specific incantation doesn't work.  Standard output is empty.
>
> Is there any way to convince GnuPG to pass the input through to
> standard output?  (And if not, would it be reasonable to add a
> switch to do this?)
>

using tee to split the output stream before you pipe to gpg would be the
standard way to do it (I'm sure named pipes & file descriptors could be
woven in some way)

command ... | tee <somefile> | gpg --detach-sign -o sig_file; cat
<somefile> | other_command ...

If you're on Windows, you can get tee from Cygwin, MinGW/MSys, UWin, or
Services for Unix


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